The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-22

3. The shores Of history are strewn with the
Egyptian dead.
a. The crossing OF the lied sea o good lllustra
ton of conversion.
Religious Notes.
Bishop Hare has confirmed $4,000 Indian,
during his episcopate.
People look at you ak days OF the week tc
find what you mean on the Sabbath
Blessed is the man that endures temptation
A weak and wicked man may suffer, but 1t takes
good man to endure.
Every single acton of our life carries in its
train either a reward a punishment, however
little disposed we are 10 admit that such is the
Ease.
Izaak Walton: The cares which are the keys
of riches, hang often heavily at the rich mans
girjle that they clog him with weary days and
restless nights, when others sleep quietly.
There is a kind of close relationship between
other. IL we In mourning, we feel somehow
or Other drawn to every black dress we meet
The will Of Eleazsr T. Slater, who died near
Medina, N. Y, last week, gives $780, 600 to mis-
sionary societies, divided between the synodical
board of foreign missions and the Niagara Pres
bytery.
Snow, the founder of the first Sunday school in
Brooklyn, ". Y. The estimated cost will be
about ten thousand dollars, to be raised by sub
scription from Sunday school scholars.
Allure slang steruly and upon principle IL for
no other reason. because it narrows your vocabu-
larry. 1t is the favorite refuge of the slovenly
and the INDECENT IL your thought does not de-
serve neat dress, keep 1t In some back closet of
your own brain.
DIR. John Hall: It is n shame for a rich Christ
ian man to be- like a Chrstmas-bo that receives
oil, and nothing can be got out till it is broken in
pieces; or like unto drowning mans hand, that
holds whatsoever it gets.
The junior editor of the st. Louis Christian
Advocate las tried preaching in the midst of n
real estate BOOM" and this is his report: 1T
makes a fellow sweat to preach about heaven in
n place where real estate may advance one hum
ared dollars in night"
AS long rs are young, suffering and sor-
row is hurricane which robs US of our health.
AS we grow old, however it partakes more and
more of the nature of zephyr. which merely
adds one more furrow to our wrinkled face and
more white curl to our hair.
1t has been decided 20 hold n conference in
Philadelphia, Nov. 10 to 20 the Plenary In
SEPARATION of the Scriptures, the object being to
confirm the faith of Christian believers in the
canon of Holy Scripture. The call for the con-
ference is signed by representatives Of several
denominations.
The Rev. DIR. A. j. r. Behrends OF the Cen
trail Congregational Church, Brooklyn, has in
vited the Sunday school of the Third Unitarian
Church to be the guests of his church's Sunday
school on the coming anniversary day." al
though the Sunday school Union refuses TO ad-
NIT Unitarian schools to the parade that
occasion
Bishop Ryle: When Alexander the Great
visited Diogenes, he asked if there was any thing
that he could give him. He got this short
swer II want nothing but that you should
stand from between and the SIN" One
thing there is which should satisfy and
content us. and that is any thing that stands be-
tween our soul and Christ
The general synod of the Irish Church has
adopted the recommendation of the archbishop
and bishops that the Queens jubilee would be
concerned, by the establishment OF a fund to be
called Victoria Jubilee Fund for Promoting the
Education of the Sons and Daughters of the
Clergy Of the Church of Ireland"
Tha Of FL L
1887 registers the names of nearly H. 900 clergy
In so per of the parishes there are
free aud 1000, 497 paid sittings. The voluntary
offerings Of the year for various religious pur.
poses amounted to $50 900 000 and more than
%, 100000 were given to the educational depart
ment.
Home is the residence not m erely of the body.
bur OF the heart; il is a place the affections 10
unfold and develop themselves: for children to
love, and learn, and play In: for husband and
wife to toll smilingly together and make life
blessing The object of all ambition should be
TO be- happy at home; if we not happy there,
proof of the virtues of family circle to see a
happy Preside.
There has been q good deal of discussion in
Liverpool over the offer of wealthy brewer to
gave SOC, coo toward fund for Anglican
thedraL Canon Wilberforce said he would
sooner see cathedrals rot upon the ground than
that they should be rebuilt by the colossal fort
unes that have been raised from the drinking
idiocy of the English people +" Bishop Ryle how
ever, acknowledged the receipt of the brewers Of
fer with deep qualification and rendered his
''bearty thanks"
Blindtolded and and alone wait:
Loss seems too bitter, gain too late;
Too heavy burdens in the load
And too few helpers on the road:
And JOY is weak and grief is strong.
And years and days 50 long, so long!
Yet this one thing learn to know
Each day more surely as GO
That am glad the good and i'll
BY ohangeless law ordered still
Not as will"
Helen Hunt.
The best evidence of good preaching is found
in the reformatory and eevating influence it ex-
erts on the conduct of the hearers. Elegant dis
course, which encourages people to live in their
sins, is inferior tn n coarser article which drives
the sinner to repentance and reformation. II
do not remem Der the text" said trader 'but
when got home burnt up my scant half bush
ell" The gospel that does one good Is always the
gospel that drives TO burn our defective meas
ures, and conducts us forth in honest and repu-
table ways
Hawarden Church has acquired some celebrity
from the fact that IL is the estate of xPrenier
Gladstone, who not unfrequently assists his son,
the hov stephen Gladstone. rector of the church |
aud parish, by reading the lessons. Temporary /
notoriety has been given recently from another |
cause. The rector and bis friends have invented /
n special piece of headgear TO be worn by young |
ladies at confirmation. One young lady has |
count of this novelty It her desire to wear
the cap which is customariy used throughout
the country, but she told that she must
wear the headgear adopted by the church This /
she refused &c do the ground that il bears too |
close u resemblance 70 the Sister of Mercy can.